Prosfic - Never The Words They Say

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Well, happy Boxing Day - I hope everyone's full of goodness and glee after yesterday, and enjoying themselves still. Here's another story from me, should sorting out all that wrapping paper start to pall *g*

Never The Words They Say


Title: Never The Words They Say
Author: Slantedlight
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit/Hatstand: Certainly, if wanted!
Disclaimer: Bodie, Doyle and the CI5 universe do not belong to me, and I certainly don't make any money out of them. I'm just borrowing them to play with over the long cold winter...

Comments

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Okay, funny story--

So we're obviously reading together tonight, exchanging little notes back and forth, and I'm absorbed in your story, in the way you can create such a complete universe and an utterly compelling plot and the way you make the guys guys, while still allowing them to be tender with each other.

And everything is going along beautifully. Then, Ray's car rolls off the road and I think, 'Goody, hurt/comfort. My favorite!' (Because I have the emotional maturity of a seven year old.) And then, the story jumps to B & D being barged in on by the town folk. And I think, 'Wow. That's so unlike her. She doesn't normally leave out the juicy bits.'

So, I ponder what to do here. I tend to write you fawning notes of adoration about your writing because...well...I adore it and, frankly, am not too proud to fawn. But I'm always honest in my comments. And this time, I think I need to give you some constructive criticism (Like: 'Hey, the seven year old trapped inside me really wants to see poor wounded Ray comforted by overprotective Bodie'.)

But I worry. Because I don't want to offend you and I think the world of you as a writer.

So I decide to read other comments, to see if anyone else, per chance, mentioned anything.

No one did.

So I think, 'Maybe I just need to go back and read it again. Maybe it flows better than I think it does.'

So I do.

Which is when I realize the text file stored in Pros Lit is missing a significant section of your story. :-)

You gave the part of my soul that yearns for hurt/comfort all its little immature self could hope for. The story is lovely and complete, and is everything everyone else has said it is. I've so very, very happy that I've read it twice.

Though you may want to see about getting that file fixed. ;-)

Thanks!

Correction!

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I read the file stored on Pros Lib. What a difference a letter makes.

Re: Correction!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Okay.

Heeee! (*thinks - "there is no way this is gonna be unamusing"*)

Then, Ray's car rolls off the road and I think, 'Goody
Heeeeee! You're worse than me

Like: 'Hey, the seven year old trapped inside me really wants to see poor wounded Ray comforted by overprotective Bodie'.
Somewhat frighteningly, I think I wrote my first h/c story at around age seven. No. Really. It was a western (can't remember what prompted it, but it was at school. It may have been free writing. My teacher was just fine about it - well, I could spell - but I don't think I wrote any more at school... *g*) and there was torture and tumbleweed involved. It wasn't Pros, although I'm currently wondering about doing a grown-up version. Rest assured, I will never leave out the juicy bits. Especially now that I know there are many other people as h/c addicted as me... (*gods* but I love fandom...*)

But I worry.
No! Don't worry! You have to call me names before I worry! I would probably have gone "what the fuck?" but I would have been puzzled first, and offended only if the chunk had still been in there... Actually if the chunk had still been in there I would have said "wtf?" even harder, but I probably still wouldn't have been offended. You have to be mean to offend me. (Not that it hasn't been done... no, wait, only the lads get h/c like that... ah well, hey-ho!)

the text file stored in Pros Lit is missing a significant section of your story
Ack! Oh no! All those poor buggers, wondering why Bodie didn't give a shit about Ray, who was tossed and tumbled and bruised and battered and... *runs to Frances to beg restoration of the pain and subsequent stroking*

Thank you for letting me know!

PS - See the icon. Cos, you know, Doyle's so pretty when he's... *g*

Re: Correction!

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Honestly, my fav Doyle ep, without =question= is Man Without a Past. Much of the reason for that is how *beautifully* Ray suffers.

I'm not proud. But it's the truth.

Re: Correction!

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Oh, he so does... *happy sigh*... Mmmn. Might have to go and watch that again now... Soon as I've finished British Beefcake... *g*